Brown Athletics Ranks Second Nationally in NCAA APR Rankings for Third Straight Year

May 15, 2014

Portions of this release courtesy of the NCAA and the Ivy
League

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Brown University and the Ivy League
continued to pave the way for academic excellence as Brown
Athletics ranked second in the nation in NCAA Academic Progress
Rate (APR) for the third straight year, it was announced by the
NCAA national office.

The Bears saw 22 teams take home APR Public Recognition Awards for
earning a multiyear APR in the top 10 percent of all squads in each
sport, 19 of which posted a perfect APR for the 2012-13 academic
year.

The most recent four-year Division I APR is 976, a two-point
improvement from last year. The Ivy League's APR of 993 over that
same period in its NCAA-sponsored sports continues to lead all
Division I conferences. Across Division I, the average four-year
rate also rose two points in baseball (967) and football (951),
five points in men's basketball (957) and one point in women's
basketball (973).

Every Division I sports team calculates its APR each academic
year, based on the eligibility, graduation and retention of each
scholarship student-athlete. APR provides a clear picture of the
academic performance in each sport.

In the May 7 announcement of the APR Public Recognition Awards,
the Ivy League led the way for the ninth year in a row with 117 of
the 1,049 total teams receiving honors in the most recent Academic
Progress Rate (APR) Public Recognition Awards. The League's 117
teams outdistanced the Patriot League (94), Atlantic Coast
Conference (77) and Big Ten Conference (66).

For the ninth-straight year, the League held the top two spots
with Dartmouth topping the list for the third-consecutive year with
26 teams honored. Brown placed second for a third-straight year
with 22 teams honored. The remaining top 10 included Penn tied for
fourth with Lafayette (17 teams) and Yale tied for seventh with
Davidson, Duke, Holy Cross and Stanford (14 teams).

Rounding out the Ivies were Columbia, Cornell and Princeton all
tied for 18th with 10 teams each honored and Harvard tied for 27th
with five other schools each with eight teams commended.

Of the 146 schools that have received Public Recognition Awards
each of the nine years of the program, the Ivy League is the only
Division I conference to have every school in its conference
recognized.